RTS Life Science has launched its Tube Auditor instrument, featuring vision technology that enables fast, accurate volume measurement of samples.
It is targeted at the compound management, high-throughput screening and Bio-banking marketplace.
RTS will unveil the instrument at Labautomation 2010, which will take place at the Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California, from 23-27 January, 2010.
The RTS Tube Auditor is a bench-top instrument suitable for manual operation or integration into automated systems.
It enables fast and accurate measurement of sample volumes and the detection of precipitate in sample tubes.
Its high-speed vision technology allows a full 96-way SBS tube rack to be audited in less than 2min.
The RTS Tube Auditor ensures complete sample safety and avoids the potential for sample degradation as there is no need to de-cap tubes during the auditing process.
During Labautomation 2010, RTS will be hosting a workshop in collaboration with Microsonics Systems.
The workshop, entitled 'See and hear how vision and acoustic technology could save $$$ in your screening and library collection', will highlight how two complementary technologies can minimise poor-quality screening and improve results by finding and correcting solubility issues within compound libraries.
It will focus on the Tube Auditor and its vision technology, and how Microsonics use ultrasonic energy to re-solubilise compounds.
The workshop will take place on 26 January, 2010 at 12.30-2pm.
RTS Life Science will present two posters at Labautomation 2010.
One of these posters, entitled 'Improving screening results using vision technology', will demonstrate the benefits of using RTS vision technology to routinely and accurately audit sample tubes.
These benefits include minimising costs from wasted screening of empty plate wells and avoiding screening samples at the wrong concentration by early detection of precipitated samples.
A competition will also take place on the booth where visitors will be able to estimate the volume of sample in a tube, with the closest getting the chance to win an Ipod touch.
